STUDS TERKEL: Studs Terkel dead — chicagotribune.com: The author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol has died. “My epitaph? My epitaph will be ‘Curiosity did not kill this cat,’” he once said. I stood in line behind Studs Terkel at Treasure Island
RIP Danny Dill, co-writer of “Long Black Veil”
Danny Dill has passed away. Mr. Dill wrote “Long Black Veil” with Marijohn Wilkin, a that song has been recorded by Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash, Jerry Garcia and a slew of others. His “Detroit City,” written with Mel Tillis, became
Wow, George Carlin is dead.
Celebrity deaths don’t often prompt a reaction in me, but this one made me gasp. Not because it was so very unexpected, really, but because no matter how old he got or how sickly he was looking, I guess it’s
The death of a child is always “tragic,” I guess
I started to use the term “tragic” in the subject of this post, but then realized it seemed redundant to describe a child’s death that way. Found on Shaun Groves’ blog, but he’s quoting the Tennessean: One of contemporary Christian
We’re in the money!
CNN Money, that is. Omniture put out a press release about some of the success Magazines.com has had using their Test & Target (formerly Offermatica) tool, and it got picked up on CNN Money’s Marketwire. And look! “When specifying our
I’ve never been the “play it cool” type anyway
I’m not even going to pretend for a second that I don’t think this is super-cool: “We found that the page with highest rate of entering and then exiting quickly was our homepage,” says Kate O’Neill, director of customer experience
Creative reuse
Good to see that Hall & Oates have a healthy attitude about allowing their music to be repurposed, even if that repurposing is done with more than a hint of irony. Speaking from his home outside of Aspen, Oates credits
In case you didn’t believe that Al Gore loves trees…
This is right by my boss’ boss house, where Karsten and I house-sit and dog-sit and occasionally kid-sit (we’ll be doing that again next week). We’d noticed the tree in the road and wondered what was up with it, but
I picked the right year to leave Chicago, apparently
Chicago regains the title of America’s murder capital, despite a sharp drop in homicides, police say.
I love this.
From the AP – Long before his days as billionaire premier, Silvio Berlusconi used to croon on a cruise ship. Now, Italy’s leader is coming out with an album of love songs. My favorite part is the lyrical excerpt: “One